Weiden and Nuremberg

CM has continued to travel a lot for work. This past trip, he stayed in a great little German hotel in a town named Weiden. He booked the family suite and asked us to join him. Weiden is a lovely small town with great restaurants, shopping and a large park with running/biking path that runs parallel to the village.  And although we stuck to our regular schedule, it was a welcome break from our normal routine. (We even had gelato, and only gelato, for lunch one day....we were crazy like that. It did put G in a short-lived sugar coma, however ...documented in pic below)

For the weekend, we headed to Nuremberg. Of all the larger cities we have been to in Germany so far, this is one of our favorites. It's a fantastic walkable city with a castle that sits on the edge of town high on a hill. Nuremberg is known for its Christmas Markets that are said to draw over a million people each winter. It was nice to see this city in the Spring but being only a two hour drive from Stuttgart, we plan to return for the markets next holiday season.